The family may have been in other counties, and may never have moved due to
changes in counties.
I attended the COGS meeting about two years ago and a speaker stated that
his relatives had lived in 7 counties and three states and had NEVER MOVED.

I am sure you have read census line by line.

In several instances, names are spelled nothing like they are spelled. One
census taker wrote down Clayton, Pon for my relative who was Pugh, Clayton.
I found this reading line by line. In another instance the name looked like
Henderson, Egbert, again reading line by line, I found the family living
next door to her parents. And I too would have transcribed the last name as
Henderson but it was Herndon.

Title Bryant, John Pinkney
Birth Date 1848-05-05
Age at Death 71 years 9 months 26 days
County of Death Chattooga
Date of Death 1920-03-01
Year of Death 1920
First Name John Pinkney
Last Name Bryant
Race or Ethnic Origin Caucasian

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> Hi, I'm trying to trace my fathers family roots as far back as possible
> and have hit a dead end.
>
> The furthest back I got is John Pinkney Bryant, born around 1811, with the
> earliest confirmed record in 1833 when he married Virginia Cooper in
> Madison Georgia. (See link below)
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> http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&indiv=try&db=eamga&h=47881
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> I also found his signature in the 1840 census for Madison Georgia.
>
> I did find a John Bryant listed in the 1820 Census for Madison, Georgia,
> but John Pinkney Bryant would have only been 9 years old so that could be
> his father, or someone unrelated completely.
>
> There is no federal census data for georgia before 1920 so that doesn't
> help. I did look though the state census records and found a John Bryant
> in Franklin county, GA and Oglethorpe, GA which I believe is close to
> Madison so it could be an ancestor, but there is no way to confirm as far
> as I can tell.
>
> If anyone could help me figure out where he was born, who his parents were
> and where they were from, or anything else I would appreciate it.
>
> For background info, John Pinkney Bryant moved to Gilmer, Georgia by 1850,
> had several kids including my ancestor Elias Bryant, then John and his
> entire family minus elias disppeared by 1870 because they don't show up in
> any census data and my ancestor Elias is living with a different family.
> Eventually he moves to Oklahoma and from there my ancestors are in the
> oklahoma, texas area.
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